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Envelopes mailed from India to a dozen Greek universities prompted an anti-terrorism investigation on Thursday after tests found an industrial irritant that triggered an allergic reaction in members of staff.

A package that arrived by mail at the Greek Foreign Ministry on Friday and was deemed suspicious contained an electronic blood pressure monitor, according to police sources cited by state-run news agency ANA-MPA.

The parcel raised the alarm at the ministry which was evacuated by police earlier in the day.

Greek police evacuated the Foreign Ministry in central Athens on Friday after a suspicious package arrived through the mail, sources said.

A bomb disposal unit was on its way to check the parcel.

About 70 employees were waiting outside the ministry. 

Postage stamps, old coins and football cards are some of the more usual items gathered by those interested in collecting items as a hobby.

A 29-year-old man accused of mailing several letter bombs to foreign and Greek financial officials - including one that exploded in the hands of former prime minister Lucas Papademos in May, injuring him seriously - has been given until Wednesday to testify to a special investigating magistrate.

Post Office tunnels buried more than six miles under Britain’s streets are set to open to the public for the first time ever.

Known as the ‘Rail Mail’, the sprawling network of underground tracks were built in 1927 and had the capacity to carry over four million letters at any given time.

Parliament is introducing stricter measures for monitoring incoming mail after former prime minister Lucas Papademos was injured by a letter bomb last week.

Postal workers in the Greek capital have called rolling 24-hour strikes from Tuesday through Friday in protest at management decisions regarding delivery services.

Greek police have confiscated 8 bomb parcels identical to the ones sent to Germany’s Finance Ministry and the IMF offices in Paris by the terrorist organisation “Conspiracy of Fire Nuclei”. The packages were detected by the Greek postal services in the Kryoneri Selection Centre in Attica. The parcels were found before being sent to the Athens International Airport.

News of a parcel bomb going off at the International Monetary Fund's headquarters in Paris swept through the Greek media on Thursday afternoon as it came just a day after a similar device was posted from Greece to the German Finance Ministry.

Reuters reported that one person was "slightly injured" after opening the booby-trapped letter at the IMF's Paris office.